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  1. 6 minutes ago, fattyflattie said:

    You’re describing what topwater fishing is to me.  Watching that wake come up behind and then the toilet bowl flush into a 30” sow, or the hand grenade that goes off when that upper slot red somehow wraps their stupid bottom feeding mouth around the back end of that spook.  Caught a >100# YF on a popper and spinning reel, after watching them soar into the sky when they missed it.  Chicken dolphin on single hook spooks around weed lines.  I bet I could catch 20x the fish if I didn’t insist on fishing one lure 95%+ of the time.  But when it’s on, there’s nothing like it (for me). I’ve got a shoulder I got to get figured out because it’s keeping me off the water for far too long. 

    The 8 foot sailfish I caught? The first jack I caught that took 45 mins to land (I was a teenager)? Tuna screaming with the line, marlin jumping (didn’t land)? More dorado and wahoo than I can count, multiple limits caught in half day trips - reds / trout, trophy trout and trophy reds, I mean I could go on and on, all on conventional tackle all take a back seat. Sorry, I get you like what you like, but the skill and effort catching on a fly especially with barbless hooks is next level.  You should try it will rock your world.

  2. 18 minutes ago, fattyflattie said:

    A 10# sow is tough enough on a corky, I don’t have enough years left to make that happen on a fly.   Hell it took me 20 years to break 30” on conventional tackle. 

    To each his own.  My top 5-10 fishing experiences are all on a fly rod. 11-15 probably conventional off shore but give me another 5 years and those will drop further, after that it’s back to the fly rod. And I’ve barely scratched the surface. No permit, caught but haven’t landed 12-14 pound bonefish you have not heard a reel scream until you’ve seen a large bone take off, caught but haven’t landed a 50 lb tarpon and the fucker jumped 3 feet into the air before it through the hook, caught a heavy weight GT which is a catch of a lifetime, caught a 28-30 inch red, caught a slot from 60 feet away with a perfect cast and the momentary skill of a pro, and more reds and trout than I can count, almost all I saw them before they saw me and I targeted them. I’ve hit the mother load of 10+ trout in 30 mins on a fly rod more than once but first with Hollywood, on a fly rod is an incredible way to hunt fish. Add barbless hooks and it’s even more satisfying - and this part cannot be overstated - releasing a fish after a fight almost unharmed just startled is the holy grail imo. And I started  fly fishing at 43-45 years old. There’s always time. You get bored it’s the next level. The draw is inexplicable. 

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  3. 7 minutes ago, fattyflattie said:

    Make no mistake, I’m sure he’s happier than he lets on.  I chalked it up to what it’s like when you hook a red while fishing Baffin in Feb.   Off my line carp, I’m here for the sows.  On legit 30+ fish days I’m sure you’re looking for something new to bite.  I assume because I’ve never been a part of something like that. 

    That’s why we fly fish. 

  4. 25 minutes ago, fattyflattie said:

    Iirc they got heavy into bills in the 70’s, family and friends as crew. The old man is almost 80 now, so yeah he’s not captaining the boat anymore, or hunting bills in the gulf for that matter.  They’ve downsized their SF (to a smaller one) and chase pelagics down in Mexico and CR now.  For many years it wasn’t uncommon to have 2-3 captains from that family tree running boats fishing the big tournaments here (Poco, legends, TIFT) at any given time.  Salty, salty family on both sides. 

    That’s cool. They deserve to get bored. The rest of us have a lot more fishing to do before we are entitled to be bored. The power of humility, gratitude and appreciation is real. 

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  5. 2 hours ago, fattyflattie said:

    This is someone who easily has triple digit sails, and they probably getting close on blues.  Grew up fishing the Marlin tournaments.  It’s (big) blues or bust for them, for whatever reason.  I always personally loved them.  And tuna.  And trout.  

    Yeah but who is doing the real fishing? Until they are up at 1am the night before getting the rigging just right - or owning the boat and paying the crew to do that - then they aren’t really fishing.  
     

    and I say that with all due respect as a pelagic tourist who has caught plenty of bounty fish all over the western hemisphere and has also spent time with an owner and saw what really goes into pelagic fishing the night before.

  6. 1 hour ago, fattyflattie said:

    Don’t think sails are as bad, and the light gear helps. Have a buddy that fishes down there 1-2x a year and they’ve had a couple 35+ days over the last few trips.  Unreal.  Thing is, sails no longer do it for them.  Which would suck imo. 

    My view is as things stop working for you it’s important to be more responsible for the full catch. Hard to do off shore but I’m sure catching a sail when you set up the rig, you figure out where to go and how to hunt for them is way more satisfying. In the end most of us tourist fish for pelagics, that’s a very narrow fishing experience and 95% of the fishing is done by someone else. I compare it to a Colorado vacation float trip for trout versus soup to nuts doing it yourself. Night and day difference. 

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  7. On 4/8/2024 at 10:31 PM, Shot Caller said:


    That’s awesome! I can’t imagine 45+ billfish bites. Like you said, that’s a great day in the gulf. I remember being ecstatic going 2/4 on blues in a day. We fished out of the Sea Ranch and did a lot of the Texas tourneys.

    The last time I fished CR we caught 8 and I thought it was an epic day. Caught a really large sail trophy pic worthy and since I hadn’t ever caught one they let me get the pic. The rest we left in the water.  I went home so effing happy. 45+ ??? Wouldn’t know what to do.

  8. On 4/8/2024 at 12:06 AM, TreatyOak said:

    As someone who thought I worked insane hours in advertising in NY, her job has been fairly astounding to us. She was a computer engineering major at Duke and interned at Morgan Stanley in NY two summers in school. Since graduation, she has been there full-time. The hours are like nothing we’ve ever seen. She will stay at her job (with a promotion in Aug) and has already accepted a job at another private equity firm & start in Aug of 2025. I have no understanding how the industry works as it seems to have its own unique structure, but perhaps all finance is like that. She has worked on some pretty cool deals, as well. I would encourage it, since your son can bank a lot of money and then be very valuable to so many different companies. 

    yeah I think the law equivalent is about 10% less in hours but a whole lot less in pay. I worked 100 hours per week rarely but it happened. 65-70 was pretty standard - a lot of 12 hour days and a few hours to organize, think, catch up on the weekend. not great but manageable when you're young and no kids. but bump that up to 75-80 hours and more often at 100 hours per week and that will burn. but the money and the skills for sure.  good luck to her that's awesome.  world will be her oyster for sure.

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  9. 19 minutes ago, mchookem said:

    was it Big12Warzone? 🤔 i was there either before shaggy existed, or i just hadn't found shaggy yet. it was def small and obscure, and i remember several of those names, i don't think i've ever seen any iteration of them on shaggy or surly. it was dominated by Texas fans but there were quite a few from other B12 schools. and it was rough. i think that's honestly why i have such a thick skin here, even as a female, kind of a baptized by fire thing lol

    I don’t think so. It had Hookem or horns or something like that in the title - it was Texas only and probably had probably less than 50 active posters.

    It was around the time she died, shaggy did not exist until 2008? It predated then.

  10. 9 minutes ago, bernorange said:

    Respectfully, you are wrong.  I read the damn post a few hours after it was posted.  The author had been trading barbs with her for some time before posting his/her magnum opus.  I may not remember every detail, but I'm not so senile as to forget what happened entirely.

    Maybe one poster posted the attack that caused it but I distinctly remember the very site being founded on a “we are smart, you are dumb, so dumb” mentality and the most popular thread that had numerous participants was quoting hornfans posters and making fun of them. I remember because I railed on them for it on hornfans. 

  11. 56 minutes ago, bernorange said:

    I'm sure that some people probably knew who the author was.  I never saw it discussed anywhere.  I didn't personally know anyone on that site just as I don't know anyone here other than Blacklab - who I've only "met" via email and phone.

    it was a group of posters on a start up obscure message board that was more focused on keeping people out than growing a base. there was no single one poster that bullied, the culture of that board was to point at posters on hornfans and laugh. she got caught up in it and it went awful. several months or years later shaggy was born. very early on, the idea of telling someone to kill themselves was treated as a bannable offense.

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  12. it was not on longhornfanzone.com it was on a short lived very few members message board that I don't remember the name of. back then it was broadly accepted that online bullying was a part of it. granted anyone who does do that probably has other issues too, but it's the combination we all have to worry about.

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  13. 3 minutes ago, Surly Bevo said:

    Yep

    They are up by 11 letting edey go one on one. Edey gets his - sorta - and UConn is pulling away. Edey hasn’t dominated since the 8 min mark left in the first half. So far the UConn plan is working great. No need to double team him at all. 

  14. 2 minutes ago, troph said:

    Yeah I mean I like you but that’s not a good take on your part. We’d take him in a heart beat.

     

    Just now, Degenerate Gardner said:

     

    ^^^ your quote of mine.

    we’d still take him in a NY minute. The guy is young and possibly the best coach in basketball rn. UConn is looking at a serious dynasty  run. We’d take him and high five him for talking shit. He’s no Herman. He’s top of the game.

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